Yankees won last night for another championship. I’m less than excited about this. This does two things that are not a positive trend for baseball. First of all, it gets A-Rod a ring. You remember him, the guy who along with Scott Boras decided to make baseball a game of haves and have nots. Not that salaries weren’t already escalating at the time, but his contract essentially bumped up the scale in an exponential way. Plus, A-Rod is just not a likable player. Second reason why this isn’t good is tied to the first…apparently buying a championship is back in vogue which raises the costs of everything. I have a hard time loving a game where the guy who pitches two innings every three days and gets paid between six to eight million a year for doing so.
Sort of a random thought here, but I really dislike how the Star Tribune does comments on it’s online paper. The physical paper itself is fine no matter what the nay-sayers grouse about it. It does make me laugh when people whine about its liberal slant–obviously they haven’t spent too much time reading other newspapers or just believe what the right-wing noise machine says. The news itself is pretty straightforward and the opinion pages do lean left a bit, but not by much. However, the online version? Tough to read if you spend any time glancing at the comments. Mostly because you are guaranteed to see comments that are 1) woefully uninformed, 2) frighteningly racist/sexist or hateful, or 3) trolls. Most of this is caused by a policy that allows people to post what they want under a pseudonym and it is this anonymity that allows people to post without checking themselves. We see the darker side of their comments and their views and the posters feel like there is nothing wrong with it as they are never taken to task for saying in a public forum what’s coming from their hands. And it’s not all posters–I wouldn’t even say it was close to most posters–but a small group can make a lot of noise on a site. Overall, the effect is a negative one. I’m not sure why they allow comments at all as the new media is something the web lackys at the Strib just don’t understand. Nothing wrong with an online paper that does not have comments.
I’m behind on my NaNoWriMo count. Today will be my dedication to getting more on the page. The good side of my new life is that I’ve had more time to plug into my blog and other fun things like that. However, I’m struggling already with NaNo because I really don’t have much of a plot. Most of the days I would have used for plotting and characters and the like were given up to pack for the trip. We started to drive on the 1st and I just don’t write well in the car. I thought of some really nice ideas in the car and fortunately, I have them down, but the larger sense of where it all fits into a plot…that’s less so.
Hopefully, my iPhone will be here tomorrow. I have to leave a note at the new place for the delivery guy as I just don’t know when he’s going to show up. Our stuff is still on the East Coast as far as I know and we thought we’d be moved into the new place by now. But luck is a funny creature and sometimes things don’t quite turn out the way you want them to. If I do get the iPhone tomorrow, I’ll be a very happy person.
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